[mythtvnz] is there any way to check mythfrontend hasn't hung?

[Jason Haar]

Criggie wrote:
>
> Totally untested, but the frontend runs a telnet server on port 6546.  If
> that's not listening, then mythfrontend is probably not responding.
>   

Brilliant. I knew there was a reason to ask instead of just jumping in
and trying to hack up something :-)

I'll give it a go. Hopefully whatever causes my hangs also hangs the
network port.

> instead of reboot, maybe:
> killall mythfrontend
> sleep 3
> mythfrontend
>   
I never meant to just reboot it. Indeed I want to restart mythfrontend -
that's the only part affected

Thanks again

Jason